Despite being founded as a republic with free market enterprise as its economic guide, America, over the past century and a half, has gravitated more and more toward communism. How is this even possible? Why would we take steps toward an ideology that has not only hurt other countries, but destroyed them? I explain by taking the very demands made by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the "Communist Manifesto" and comparing them to things we have done and are doing in the United States.